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by mkjones 15y ago
You don't need to know what either of those things are to make the (correct) observation that the majority of malware targets the systems on which it'll get the most bang for its buck. At least currently, that means targeting Windows users
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by mkjones 15y ago
Even ignoring other commenters' valid concerns about sensitive data stored in logs, this can be a tough thing to scale. Say the logs live on disk on a filer somewhere. Need to do a security investigation? OK, dig up the file the logs are
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by mkjones 15y ago
One way to improve cpu-bound performance is to switch to something like HipHop for PHP [1], which compiles PHP down to C++ and runs that. Granted, this incurs a non-trivial switching cost. However, it's scary to me that someone is suggesti
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by mkjones 15y ago
try http://www.v6.facebook.com
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by mkjones 15y ago
Yeah, I work on the team that launched this, all that google privacy PR stuff is just poorly timed - they're completely unrelated. I wish this launch hadn't been tarnished / buried by it :-(.
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Facebook launches two-factor authentication(facebook.com)
7 points by mkjones 15y ago|1 comments
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by mkjones 15y ago
Great movie.
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by mkjones 15y ago
I work on security at FB, and I suspect if someone actually tried this, they'd run into a fair amount of friction. A bunch of accounts logging in from a new place and immediately changing emails / passwords is pretty suspicious. Even if th
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by mkjones 15y ago
I think when people say "relational doesn't scale," what they mean is "MySQL often requires application-level changes to scale out ." I assume (among this crowd, anyway) that scaling out is more desirable vs. scaling up because the majorit
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by mkjones 15y ago
I wasn't involved with this particular situation, but I work at Facebook and am a pretty avid HN lurker - so "we" (in some sense) definitely listen to what people are talking (and complaining) about. I (and I think some others, like @finite
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by mkjones 15y ago
Presumably that disqualifies both as being competitors to Netflix.
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by mkjones 15y ago
From the Stanford CS department for 2009-2010, regarding CS/EE undergrads, size = 140 students: > Salary offers ranged from $65,000 to $95,000. The average salary offer was $79,333. The median salary offer was $ 80,000. Granted (heh), t
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by mkjones 15y ago
Interesting - I'm only a year and a half out of college, and I don't think any of my undergrad CS friends were making a $110k salary right after graduation (more in the 60-90 range). I've always used a rule of thumb that rent is $1k/month/b
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by mkjones 15y ago
If it's at-will, they can fire you for whatever reason (or no reason). I don't think they have to prove anything, except that you signed an at-will employment agreement.
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by mkjones 16y ago
Wouldn't accepting 1000 applications, and teaching Montessori-style to 500 of them and traditional-style to the other 500 pretty accurately control for all of those self-selection biases?
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by mkjones 16y ago
Interesting - what do you mean by "your account is non-SSL enabled?" I've got persistent HTTPS turned on (and have not opted out of platform), and clicking a like button or commenting on a comment plugin does not add non-secure authenticat
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by mkjones 16y ago
Yeah, I find it pretty annoying that you can't deep link a comment as well, but I'm not sure how to make it better. What do you think would be a good way to add that functionality, given that the comment plugin is running in an iframe on a
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by mkjones 16y ago
What do you mean "risk losing your SSL?" Do you mean the "turn off SSL so I can access this canvas application?" thingy? As long as you don't click that, you shouldn't have to worry - if you've turned on HTTPS browsing, it only sends you
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by mkjones 16y ago
Sadly it's pretty easy to get fake or stolen credit card numbers. Even barring that, it's pretty easy to phish normal users (who all have credit cards on their accounts, as a sibling post points out) and use them to vote without their know
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by mkjones 16y ago
Looks like LISP to me. Or just the rantings of someone out of touch with reality.
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by mkjones 16y ago
Wait, the OKWS web site runs on apache?
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by mkjones 16y ago
I think you mean "extracted" or "opened," not "expunged" (expunged means sealed or erased, the opposite of what I assume you intend). That being said, I work on anti-abuse systems at Facebook and I'm pretty sure we don't "plug all your comm
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by mkjones 16y ago
The first thing you see on the help page is a list of places to contact that are external / not related to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=15538 .
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by mkjones 16y ago
I'm curious why you won't be commenting? What does the new interface lack that Disqus had (or vice versa)? Or is it merely your annoyance at Facebook for trying to build something better that drives your decision? (Keep in mind, no one
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by mkjones 16y ago
That video, while cool, is tremendously misleading. Not only does he make a lot of unlikely assumptions assumptions (it should not be that easy to get someone's apache pid), but Facebook doesn't use php's build-in session management code a
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by mkjones 16y ago
This mostly-web programmer finds strace and (more often) ngrep ( http://linux.die.net/man/8/ngrep ) to be some of the most useful tools out there for debugging errors both strange and mundane.
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by mkjones 16y ago
I love how the first thing so many people do is post their results here, where they can be associated with their YC handles. Opt-out privacy, I guess. That being said, I suspect there's not a lot of variance among most of the commenters on
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by mkjones 16y ago
I think the "take another poll!" call to action is a good idea for keeping people engaged, assuming there's content. Grok.io needs that - so far it's more concentrated on answering a question accurately than surfacing more questions for a
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by mkjones 16y ago
Being good and being able to write secure software are very different, somewhat orthogonal, qualities.
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by mkjones 16y ago
1. Colleges contain a bunch of kids with rich, litigious parents. 2. Colleges are run by a bunch of administrators who cater to rich, litigious parents, and whose primary source of revenue is more of those parents in the coming years. Th

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